French National Cedric Rault-Verpre Suffered Racial Abuse While Hitching in New Zealand: “Fuck off back to where you came from”

  A few days ago we wrote about seasoned traveler Cedric Rault-Verpre who was stuck in the remote township of Punakaiki (a township for Local People) for 4 days. When his frustration boiled over (no one even offered him so much as a cup of water) he threw rocks at a decrepit old road sign.…

New Zealand Brutal Place for Women and Tourists. Amy Farrall, Niki Honda, Michaela Brandl et al…updated

Another sad reminder today that New Zealand continues to be a brutally unsafe place for women and tourists, whilst Christchurch has a hard time living down its reputation as the nation’s murder capital. Until the National led government recently started interfering with reporting requirements by making “procedural changes that wiped thousands of crimes off the…